Why don't you just make a slipstream CD/DVD with all the updates on it? It sure doesn't take that long to do and at this point in time if you're re-doing it on more than one machine per month you should have one anyway. If you don't know how this will give you the basic primer on it.
Wikipedia is full of factual inaccuracies, it gets even worse the closer you come to articles on politics or popular culture. Then the neutrality goes right out the window because someone, somewhere is always carrying an agenda. I think my current favorite is the #gamergate article where the founder of wikipedia has stepped in because a particular subset of users and ultra-leftwing feminists skewed the neutrality so badly that even he could spot it. Couple that with a particular senior editor having done nearly 25% of the edits and breaking the neutrality rule, it's now led him down the path where people on both sides of the spectrum want him stripped of the ability to edit at all.
There's instances of this from other blogs doing the same thing. One example that stands out in my mind is from LGF. Where a user bombed comments on hot air(during a low moderation period) to claim that "hot air supported racism." Then was lauded for what they did on their home site.
Consoles just have to render at 1080, not 1440 or the 4k you can easily pick up for your PC. *re-reads*
For the last couple of gens it's usually been possible to get a PC that 'looked better' - but you ended up paying a whole wedge more for the privilege
I hope you know that neither console uses 1080 as a native resolution. Some games use 1080 mainly on the PS4, though they're main 900p, almost all games on the Xbox One are 792. Some get up-sampled to 1080p. But let's compare the current generation of hardware on those consoles, and what you could build with a PC. And you'll find that for ~30-80 more then a console you can build a PC that will stomp the ground flat and do 1080p without a problem.
The current gen of consoles at best were aborted messes that anyone in their right mind should never have bought.
I'm sure some console fanboy will come out any time now and still scream that these consoles are more powerful than PC's and all that. Well I guess they are, but only if you count a PC from ~3-4 years ago.
Strange, I heard the same thing that it "would never happen in Canada." Interestingly enough Rogers, Bell, Telus and Cogeco discovered that despite the "never mess with hockey" rule that Canucks also have a "never mess with the internet" rule too. It was a big enough outrage that the federal government(that would be the current conservative government) stepped in and threatened the CRTC(think canuck FCC), that they would strip their mandate away if they didn't smarten up. They're also discovering that with the current video streaming and trying to piss off people over netflix up here too.
Then again, I sometimes think that Canada stole the US's ability to stand up against government and government bodies. We've been doing that quite often here over the last 15 years coming from our history where we used to just whine, bitch and moan over something. While americans are simply whining, bitching and moaning over something now.
Except of course when you see the questions. Example from when I was out in Alberta required you to carry four tens, then break the ones into another set of subgroup of ones. Yeah, using 20+20+2x2=wrong in their little world.
The problem is that we need an accurate measure of a student's creativity instead of a student's talent for memorizing the correct answer. This creates a brain-dead workforce which kills the ability to innovate.
I'm guessing you've never looked at or went into any field that requires memorization for course work. As a hint, there's a lot of areas of work that require that in order to be successful even in a job that requires logical thinking, problem solving, and "thinking outside the box." What you're talking about in the rest of your paragraph however is taking learned knowledge plus experience and applying it to understand "how something happens." You still need that memorization and learning by rote to get there.
Yeah don't get me started on common core, we tried that up here in Canada before you guys did and it's done such a fucked up job of screwing kids up that there's at least 4 years worth in Ontario and Alberta that they're not struggling at basic areas of math, english and history. In fact it's so fucked up that both provinces have thrown the "non-directive learning" into the trashbin of history.
Informed consent; a condition not satisfied by something buried in dozens of pages of legal boilerplate.
I was going to say, are you new to/.? But according to you UID that would be a no, and since it's a no I'd have figured that you would already know that this is pretty much the norm in all OS testing, technical testing, beta testing, UI development, etc. MS, Apple, BSD, various flavors of 'nix have all been doing this for a while. By a while I mean more than 12 years.
Really? I live in Canada, and none of those show up on regular TV stations(in my area) they're all on cable. In canada at least 25% of households also use netflix as their primary source for said shows as well and it's increasing.
Welcome to #gamergate, Strange that this has been the same responses that the anti-side has been screaming about for the last month. My personal favorite are the feminists who attack other women and minorities, including making statements that "they know better" then the people they claim they're "trying to protect."
So the best response you have to someone saying you don't like is "in just about every group of bigots there are token uncle toms" well I guess that makes it easy to see who the bigot really is. After all "if it doesn't fit your view point of the world, it's wrong."
I've certainly noticed that. Midrange value-oriented places frequently include a continental breakfast too, whereas high-end places want you to buy their overpriced breakfast.
Last year when I was driving back from Florida(in march), I stopped at a Microtel(wish I could remember where but I'd been on the road 12hrs by that point) which had an actual cook on staff for morning breakfasts. I was thoroughly impressed, not only at the menu that was included but that it was "donation only."
Interesting, I had a head injury ~14ish years ago which increased the frequency, duration, and pain of regular headaches, but also increased the frequency of migraines. I've lost close to 90% of my sense of smell, and occasionally get "weird tastes" in terms of what something should taste like. My favorite these days is mint(which I can lightly taste) tastes more like oranges. On the upside with the loss of smell, I can tell when I'm going to have a migraine attack, since I'll smell things that don't actually exist.
For example, Republicans have been pushing voter ID laws which include stricter ID standards, more bureaucratic hoops to get ID, and the closing of offices to get IDs in areas which, by some crazy coincidence, are where black people live. None of these things are racist on the face of it, but the result is that its harder for black people to vote, and thus that fewer blacks vote. The Republicans and their supporters know this, but bristle at accusations of racism because, hey, its not like they used the N-word or anything like that.
If what you say about republicans is true, then democrats are akin to the khamer rouge. And please, I live in Canada, I've lived in Europe. The US is one of very *few* western countries that doesn't have a requirement of voter ID.
This has nothing to do with "making it harder" especially when states are willing to hand out the ID for free. It seems to me, that democrats would be much happier to let people vote as many times as they can and "call it democracy." I mean it's not like there haven't been a string of democrats having been charged in the last year for election fraud or anything right? I mean there was one two days ago, that was charged with 19 counts I believe.
I'm sorry you can't see that the US is still a deeply racist society in many ways. The legal system is incredibly biased, harassment by the police is a major problem, and the Republican party still finds mass appeal in certain states with dog-whistle, coded racism. Its a bigger social problem, not the fault of one party, but the Republican party has chosen to be the standard bearer of that racism (see the Southern Strategy, still in effect).
The US is a deeply racist society? I haven't read anything so funny in all my life. I'm guessing you've never traveled to japan, s.korea, malaysia or anything. You want to see deeply racist, try looking there. Or better yet, go look at the middle east...you'll see what a deeply racist society looks like. I do find it funny though that you use key words and talking points right out of the various left-wing pundits though. Perhaps you're so biased, and so deeply ingrained in your own bigotry that you can't see what you're actually saying.
Seriously? I don't think I've ever read such BS in my life. Can you do us all a favor and tell everyone which between the two parties always falls back on playing the race card on any issue, when something isn't going it's own way. Or uses slanderous attacks in order to try and stifle another persons speech? I'll give you a hint, it's that "center-right party" that you were talking about at the start. I'm not even american, and I can see fundamental differences between the two. You however, with that post simply scream "political shill."
My personal favorite, is when democrats call black republicans "house niggers, and uncle toms" being the most kind of the two that they use.
Canada...had another record breaking hot summer, and expecting another winter with hardly any snow in the Vancouver region.
Really?
If I take a look at the measurements from EC, I see that most of the country was seasonal or far below seasonal. Including snowfalls in Alberta in June and August. In Southern Ontario where I live, it was on average of 3C lower than the seasonal averages, compared to ~3-6 years ago it was 5C lower. We still had ice on the great lakes in July, that hadn't been seen since the 1970's either. Of course it doesn't help that EC has been shutting down many of the weather stations that have been in use for awhile. And of course we can't forget that in much of the country our temperature records only start in the 1970's. So if you're going to claim "a record breaking hot summer" based on 30ish years of data, you're not doing yourself any favors.
Around here, they account for under 0.1% of all generation, and cause all sorts of problems. I suppose it's nice if you live in a part of the world where you get lots of sunshine or something, but you start approaching the northern latitudes and all bets are off. Wind farms are the big thing up here(ontario), and we only pay a "mere upto 0.83c/kwh" for them to generate power.
Quite often they're not even unlocking anything. Rather they're doing a dirty hack to change the bios information of the card to display something that it isn't. This isn't all that unfamiliar to those of us who were in the industry back in the mid to late 90's when scammers were resilking(cpu info used to be silk screened on, to counter this it's why all cpu's are now stamped) Cyrix cpu's as AMD and Intel. You only found out what the CPU actually was, when you plugged it into the board and it said "cyrix." And while there are cases of people doing this to binned parts, most of the time the links to enable those pathways are cut before they're made into a gpu to stop people from doing exactly that. And if you're wondering why, it's because Intel ran into a massive problem where fly-by-night companies would unlock the binned CPU, and then actually flashing the microcode to change what the CPU was.
The cheap and dirty way to unlock CPU's during that time period was to use a graphite pencil across a unfinished path. I think it was pin 14 or 23 on the board. Very nasty problems with Slot 1 cpus.
None of the LEDs in this house have failed so far (after close to three years since installation), so I have no reason to expect that they won't last the rated lifetime.
LED's I've yet to have a problem with. CFL's, I've had nothing but problems with, ranging anything from massive flicker bad enough to cause migraines to them going up in smoke in a matter of months even in your standard lamp base. It seems to me that manufactures the first couple of years after CFL's became common started cutting costs by reducing the quality of the components themselves. Leaving you with a good glass fixture, and cheap ass electronics. Most of the failures I've seen after pulling them apart fail on resistors or capacitors. Lot of the people saying "the caps are over heating" to me, in all the cases where I've seen a capacitor fail, it's followed the same path as the "bad cap" scandal that hit PC motherboard makers in the early 00's. That is, fake caps.
In the US, it's not just gun ownership, but the number of people owning guns and toting them around in public.
It's not the people "toting them around in public" it's the cultural problem with particular segments of the population. Have you ever questioned why "fergison" was such smashing news, or the zimmerman trial, when not a weekend goes by in Chicago that 10-40+ people are shot, with 1-20 fatalities.
"Africa" Africa is the world's second-largest continent, in case you didn't notice. Not all people in Africa are starving or at war.
Sure, and it's full of abject poverty, petty dictatorships, and in many places has an education level of where the western world was ~1000 years ago, sometimes earlier. And while "not all people in africa are starving or at war" large segments of it are. The same large segments can't produce enough food to feed itself, and every time a country or person tries to fix it, it becomes a tribalized mess.
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Why don't you just make a slipstream CD/DVD with all the updates on it? It sure doesn't take that long to do and at this point in time if you're re-doing it on more than one machine per month you should have one anyway. If you don't know how this will give you the basic primer on it.
Wikipedia is full of factual inaccuracies, it gets even worse the closer you come to articles on politics or popular culture. Then the neutrality goes right out the window because someone, somewhere is always carrying an agenda. I think my current favorite is the #gamergate article where the founder of wikipedia has stepped in because a particular subset of users and ultra-leftwing feminists skewed the neutrality so badly that even he could spot it. Couple that with a particular senior editor having done nearly 25% of the edits and breaking the neutrality rule, it's now led him down the path where people on both sides of the spectrum want him stripped of the ability to edit at all.
There's instances of this from other blogs doing the same thing. One example that stands out in my mind is from LGF. Where a user bombed comments on hot air(during a low moderation period) to claim that "hot air supported racism." Then was lauded for what they did on their home site.
Consoles just have to render at 1080, not 1440 or the 4k you can easily pick up for your PC.
*re-reads*
For the last couple of gens it's usually been possible to get a PC that 'looked better' - but you ended up paying a whole wedge more for the privilege
I hope you know that neither console uses 1080 as a native resolution. Some games use 1080 mainly on the PS4, though they're main 900p, almost all games on the Xbox One are 792. Some get up-sampled to 1080p. But let's compare the current generation of hardware on those consoles, and what you could build with a PC. And you'll find that for ~30-80 more then a console you can build a PC that will stomp the ground flat and do 1080p without a problem.
The current gen of consoles at best were aborted messes that anyone in their right mind should never have bought.
I'm sure some console fanboy will come out any time now and still scream that these consoles are more powerful than PC's and all that. Well I guess they are, but only if you count a PC from ~3-4 years ago.
Strange, I heard the same thing that it "would never happen in Canada." Interestingly enough Rogers, Bell, Telus and Cogeco discovered that despite the "never mess with hockey" rule that Canucks also have a "never mess with the internet" rule too. It was a big enough outrage that the federal government(that would be the current conservative government) stepped in and threatened the CRTC(think canuck FCC), that they would strip their mandate away if they didn't smarten up. They're also discovering that with the current video streaming and trying to piss off people over netflix up here too.
Then again, I sometimes think that Canada stole the US's ability to stand up against government and government bodies. We've been doing that quite often here over the last 15 years coming from our history where we used to just whine, bitch and moan over something. While americans are simply whining, bitching and moaning over something now.
Except of course when you see the questions. Example from when I was out in Alberta required you to carry four tens, then break the ones into another set of subgroup of ones. Yeah, using 20+20+2x2=wrong in their little world.
The problem is that we need an accurate measure of a student's creativity instead of a student's talent for memorizing the correct answer. This creates a brain-dead workforce which kills the ability to innovate.
I'm guessing you've never looked at or went into any field that requires memorization for course work. As a hint, there's a lot of areas of work that require that in order to be successful even in a job that requires logical thinking, problem solving, and "thinking outside the box." What you're talking about in the rest of your paragraph however is taking learned knowledge plus experience and applying it to understand "how something happens." You still need that memorization and learning by rote to get there.
Yeah don't get me started on common core, we tried that up here in Canada before you guys did and it's done such a fucked up job of screwing kids up that there's at least 4 years worth in Ontario and Alberta that they're not struggling at basic areas of math, english and history. In fact it's so fucked up that both provinces have thrown the "non-directive learning" into the trashbin of history.
I am in Durham Region Ontario near Toronto, where are you?
I'm in Oxford currently, in one of the dead zones. I can get CityTV because Woodstock has a repeater, global comes in if you're lucky.
Informed consent; a condition not satisfied by something buried in dozens of pages of legal boilerplate.
I was going to say, are you new to /.? But according to you UID that would be a no, and since it's a no I'd have figured that you would already know that this is pretty much the norm in all OS testing, technical testing, beta testing, UI development, etc. MS, Apple, BSD, various flavors of 'nix have all been doing this for a while. By a while I mean more than 12 years.
Really? I live in Canada, and none of those show up on regular TV stations(in my area) they're all on cable. In canada at least 25% of households also use netflix as their primary source for said shows as well and it's increasing.
Can you point out any company in the west where this is true? After all, that would be illegal.
Welcome to #gamergate, Strange that this has been the same responses that the anti-side has been screaming about for the last month. My personal favorite are the feminists who attack other women and minorities, including making statements that "they know better" then the people they claim they're "trying to protect."
So the best response you have to someone saying you don't like is "in just about every group of bigots there are token uncle toms" well I guess that makes it easy to see who the bigot really is. After all "if it doesn't fit your view point of the world, it's wrong."
I've certainly noticed that. Midrange value-oriented places frequently include a continental breakfast too, whereas high-end places want you to buy their overpriced breakfast.
Last year when I was driving back from Florida(in march), I stopped at a Microtel(wish I could remember where but I'd been on the road 12hrs by that point) which had an actual cook on staff for morning breakfasts. I was thoroughly impressed, not only at the menu that was included but that it was "donation only."
Interesting, I had a head injury ~14ish years ago which increased the frequency, duration, and pain of regular headaches, but also increased the frequency of migraines. I've lost close to 90% of my sense of smell, and occasionally get "weird tastes" in terms of what something should taste like. My favorite these days is mint(which I can lightly taste) tastes more like oranges. On the upside with the loss of smell, I can tell when I'm going to have a migraine attack, since I'll smell things that don't actually exist.
For example, Republicans have been pushing voter ID laws which include stricter ID standards, more bureaucratic hoops to get ID, and the closing of offices to get IDs in areas which, by some crazy coincidence, are where black people live. None of these things are racist on the face of it, but the result is that its harder for black people to vote, and thus that fewer blacks vote. The Republicans and their supporters know this, but bristle at accusations of racism because, hey, its not like they used the N-word or anything like that.
If what you say about republicans is true, then democrats are akin to the khamer rouge. And please, I live in Canada, I've lived in Europe. The US is one of very *few* western countries that doesn't have a requirement of voter ID.
This has nothing to do with "making it harder" especially when states are willing to hand out the ID for free. It seems to me, that democrats would be much happier to let people vote as many times as they can and "call it democracy." I mean it's not like there haven't been a string of democrats having been charged in the last year for election fraud or anything right? I mean there was one two days ago, that was charged with 19 counts I believe.
I'm sorry you can't see that the US is still a deeply racist society in many ways. The legal system is incredibly biased, harassment by the police is a major problem, and the Republican party still finds mass appeal in certain states with dog-whistle, coded racism. Its a bigger social problem, not the fault of one party, but the Republican party has chosen to be the standard bearer of that racism (see the Southern Strategy, still in effect).
The US is a deeply racist society? I haven't read anything so funny in all my life. I'm guessing you've never traveled to japan, s.korea, malaysia or anything. You want to see deeply racist, try looking there. Or better yet, go look at the middle east...you'll see what a deeply racist society looks like. I do find it funny though that you use key words and talking points right out of the various left-wing pundits though. Perhaps you're so biased, and so deeply ingrained in your own bigotry that you can't see what you're actually saying.
Seriously? I don't think I've ever read such BS in my life. Can you do us all a favor and tell everyone which between the two parties always falls back on playing the race card on any issue, when something isn't going it's own way. Or uses slanderous attacks in order to try and stifle another persons speech? I'll give you a hint, it's that "center-right party" that you were talking about at the start. I'm not even american, and I can see fundamental differences between the two. You however, with that post simply scream "political shill."
My personal favorite, is when democrats call black republicans "house niggers, and uncle toms" being the most kind of the two that they use.
Canada...had another record breaking hot summer, and expecting another winter with hardly any snow in the Vancouver region.
Really?
If I take a look at the measurements from EC, I see that most of the country was seasonal or far below seasonal. Including snowfalls in Alberta in June and August. In Southern Ontario where I live, it was on average of 3C lower than the seasonal averages, compared to ~3-6 years ago it was 5C lower. We still had ice on the great lakes in July, that hadn't been seen since the 1970's either. Of course it doesn't help that EC has been shutting down many of the weather stations that have been in use for awhile. And of course we can't forget that in much of the country our temperature records only start in the 1970's. So if you're going to claim "a record breaking hot summer" based on 30ish years of data, you're not doing yourself any favors.
Maybe some utilities are scared.
Around here, they account for under 0.1% of all generation, and cause all sorts of problems. I suppose it's nice if you live in a part of the world where you get lots of sunshine or something, but you start approaching the northern latitudes and all bets are off. Wind farms are the big thing up here(ontario), and we only pay a "mere upto 0.83c/kwh" for them to generate power.
Yeah you guys in the US by definition of who you elected decided you didn't want our "dirty oil." That's fine we'll sell it to asia and europe.
Quite often they're not even unlocking anything. Rather they're doing a dirty hack to change the bios information of the card to display something that it isn't. This isn't all that unfamiliar to those of us who were in the industry back in the mid to late 90's when scammers were resilking(cpu info used to be silk screened on, to counter this it's why all cpu's are now stamped) Cyrix cpu's as AMD and Intel. You only found out what the CPU actually was, when you plugged it into the board and it said "cyrix." And while there are cases of people doing this to binned parts, most of the time the links to enable those pathways are cut before they're made into a gpu to stop people from doing exactly that. And if you're wondering why, it's because Intel ran into a massive problem where fly-by-night companies would unlock the binned CPU, and then actually flashing the microcode to change what the CPU was.
The cheap and dirty way to unlock CPU's during that time period was to use a graphite pencil across a unfinished path. I think it was pin 14 or 23 on the board. Very nasty problems with Slot 1 cpus.
None of the LEDs in this house have failed so far (after close to three years since installation), so I have no reason to expect that they won't last the rated lifetime.
LED's I've yet to have a problem with. CFL's, I've had nothing but problems with, ranging anything from massive flicker bad enough to cause migraines to them going up in smoke in a matter of months even in your standard lamp base. It seems to me that manufactures the first couple of years after CFL's became common started cutting costs by reducing the quality of the components themselves. Leaving you with a good glass fixture, and cheap ass electronics. Most of the failures I've seen after pulling them apart fail on resistors or capacitors. Lot of the people saying "the caps are over heating" to me, in all the cases where I've seen a capacitor fail, it's followed the same path as the "bad cap" scandal that hit PC motherboard makers in the early 00's. That is, fake caps.
In the US, it's not just gun ownership, but the number of people owning guns and toting them around in public.
It's not the people "toting them around in public" it's the cultural problem with particular segments of the population. Have you ever questioned why "fergison" was such smashing news, or the zimmerman trial, when not a weekend goes by in Chicago that 10-40+ people are shot, with 1-20 fatalities.
You should spend more time researching this.
"Africa"
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, in case you didn't notice.
Not all people in Africa are starving or at war.
Sure, and it's full of abject poverty, petty dictatorships, and in many places has an education level of where the western world was ~1000 years ago, sometimes earlier. And while "not all people in africa are starving or at war" large segments of it are. The same large segments can't produce enough food to feed itself, and every time a country or person tries to fix it, it becomes a tribalized mess.